Bayview Entertainment announced this past week that director David Axe’s film-within-a-film supernatural thriller, Acorn, will be making its DVD debut on Mar. 26.
Chloe (Morgan Shaley Renew — as Freawaru in Axe’s Bae Wolf, plus Bad Girls, House Monster, etc.) is a filmmaker, perhaps you’ve seen the Spacebabes trilogy … she directed those. In any case, she gets some devastating news as our story unfolds … she has six months to live! Chloe is dying of brain cancer, but that doesn’t mean she is going to stop making movies!!
One last film, a creative goodbye … it will be a genre film of her making (a supernatural horror Western)! Perhaps it is the cancer affecting her brain, perhaps just visions, who knows, but Chloe’s final film will be Die Standing Up. It's about a badass gunslinger cowgirl named Ginny (played by Caylin Brooke Sams — Sadistic: The Exorcism of Lily Deckert, Purse, Malcolm, Woods Witch) who is on something a vision quest having had dreams about a magical tree with bizarre powers.
Without giving away too much — and there is a reason for that, as David Axe (Shed, House Monster, Bae Wolf) has delivered something quite unique with Acorn — let’s just say that the production (the behind-the-scenes stuff) is getting out of control (what could wrong, goes wrong). The movie itself (Die Standing Up) begins to take shape (in parallel fashion) as Ginny discovers the secret of “the tree” she has been seeking (which is pretty gruesome).
Direct to video genre films can always be something of a crapshoot. Some are dreadful (micro budget, bad writing, bad acting ... it's a long list) and then there are some, like director/producer/writer David Axe’s Acorn, that arrives as a complete surprise. Creative, unique, different (very different) … you will not be disappointed on Mar. 26 with the DVD debut of Acorn (a double-feature all in one nice package).The bonus included with Acorn is documentary filmmaker Sarah Massey’s Create or Die: The Making of Acorn.
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